A/N about last chapter, all the little mistakes and such was due to my computer and the keyboard hating my so please forgive!

Disclaimer for this chapter and last chapter: I DON'T OWN NARUTO OKAY!

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"Naruto-kun, Merry Christmas" Sakura said as she took a present from under neither the simply decorated Christmas tree. The present was wrapped in orange with a simple bow on the top. Naruto's face lit up into his trademark cheesy grin.

"Thankyou Sakura-chan! I hope you like what I got you!" Naruto said cheerfully pointing at a nicely wrapped pink box.

"Mummy, Daddy what'd you get me?!" Yuuki asked with a pout on his face, his green eyes looking up at his mum and dad. Naruto and Sakura looked at each other and smiled. Naruto picked up a big present that was wrapped in a cute cartoon paper.

"Open it" Naruto said as he handed the box over to Yuuki. The smile on Yuuki's face grew as he tore apart the wrapping paper and opened the box.

"NINJA TOYS!" Yuuki screamed pulling out toy versions of all sorts of ninja equipment.

"I'm gonna be the next hokage for sure now!" Yuuki exclaimed as he started running around with his new toys.

"Thankyou mummy, thankyou daddy!" Yuuki called out as he ran around the room. Naruto and Sakura smiled at each other.

"He couldn't be more like you" Sakura giggled as the blonde haired ran around their house screaming

"I'm the next hokage!" and

"I'm going to be the best ninja ever"

Naruto just smiled at Sakura.

"But I'm glad he has your eyes Sakura-chan" Naruto whispered into his wife's ears.

"Open your present Naruto-kun!" Sakura said excitedly, hoping he would like what she got him. Naruto smiled and called out to Yuuki.

"Alright Yuuki, bring it out!" Naruto turned to Sakura and smiled softly.

"Me and Yuuki got you something, I want you to open it first." Naruto said as Yuuki re-entered the room with a present in his hand.

"Oh! You guys didn't have to get me a present!" Sakura said, secretly flattered that they got her something. Yuuki pasted Sakura the gift and took a seat next to Naruto. Sakura opened it carefully, and smiled as she saw what was in it.

The perfect family portrait, a picture of Sakura, Naruto and Yuuki; all smiling and all happy. Sakura was almost speechless; she looked at the two people in her life who she loved more then anything.

"Thankyou, you guys its perfect" Sakura whispered, feeling a tear fall down her cheek. She closed her eyes to try and blink away the tears.

When Sakura opened her eyes, she was in her dark, cold room. She felt the pillow under neither her, it was soaking wet. She wiped her face and had the cold realization that the tears in her dream were real. She looked her room, it was still night time, and her room still looked like world war 3 had started. She sat up, feeling the strain on her body.

"Damn Sai" Sakura thought bitterly, as she looked at the bruises along her body.

"Why'd you have to wake up huh? I was enjoying that dream?" Inner Sakura complained, giving Sakura an even worse headache. Sakura closed her eyes again, hoping that when she opened them she'd be back in a warm house, on Christmas morning, with Naruto and Yuuki. She shut her eyes tight, hoping that maybe she could fall asleep again.

"It's no use Sakura" Her Inner said in a defeated tone as Sakura opened her eyes to stare back into her empty room.

"Naruto-kun" Sakura whispered to herself as she fixed her eyes on the window, hoping that maybe the blonde haired boy would jump threw and tell her everything's okay.

But he didn't.

"What If he's hurt, I have to find him" Sakura said as she stood up and made her way towards her open window.

"Just stay put Sakura! Even if you found him, you don't have enough chakra do heal him if he's hurt" Inner Sakura protested. Sakura knew that she really wasn't up for a fight; she had only recovered a small amount of chakra. Suddenly something made Sakura's sense jump.

She could hear her front door being opened.

Sakura froze; a million things running threw her mind.

She braced herself, and grabbed a broken piece of glass off the floor. She made it half way into the hallway when the lights turned on.

"WHAT THE HELL!"

Sakura's jaw fell to the floor. That voice only belongs to one female.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR HOUSE!?" A man called out.

A small smile appeared on the corners of Sakura's mouth, happy to hear her parents for the first time in months.

"Mum, dad?" Sakura called out as she ran around her house until she found them.

"Sakura we told you NO PART-" Sakura's dad bellowed, but stopped halfway at the appearance of his daughter.

"Sakura! What happened sweetie!?" Sakura's mum called as she ran over to her daughter, and hugged her tight.

"This is going to be one long night" Sakura thought as she felt her mother's safe embrace.

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He couldn't breathe. He could barley see. He could only hear his own scream. Both covered in blood. Both fighting to the death. Both fighting for her.

He looked up at the almost foreign face that was staring at him. Sai choked as the death grip around his throat tightened. This was not the same Naruto.

This Naruto had what seemed like red chakra all around his body. He had a thick line of black around his mouth and eyes, his teeth and nails and whiskers grew to resemble ones like a fox. But nothing scared Sai more then Naruto's eyes. They weren't the peaceful blue anymore; they were red slits that pierced into you.

Both of them were covered in blood, there clothing torn. Sai had a deep cut to his neck, blood pouring out everywhere.

'How am I even alive?' was all that ran threw his head as he slowly felt himself getting weaker. He couldn't gather the strength to throw a punch, let alone make one of his creations to help get himself out of alive.

Naruto held Sai's bleeding throat with one hand, punching him in the face with the other one. Blood had spattered out of Sai's nose onto Naruto.

Naruto let out a deep growl he dropped Sai onto the floor.

"Finish him kit," The Kyuubi's voice said with excitement. Naruto's posture was slouched as he made his way to were Sai laid. He threw Sai up into the air, uppercutting him countless time in the stomach as Sai became more airborne. Naruto kicked his face and Sai flew threw the air and landed head first on the ground, his body flying lifeless across the ground.

"Maybe next time you'll think twice about hurting Sakura-chan!" Naruto roared as he appeared next to Sai. Sai knew, then and there it was all over. It would take some kind of miracle to get him out of this alive. Sai tried to keep his eyes open as he swore he saw a flash of blue threw the red of Naruto's eyes.

"What's going on in his head?"

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"Just clam down!" Kakashi yelled chasing a very, very angry Tsunade. He chased her down the halls of the hokage tower. Ever since she found out the whole story, Tsunade was fuming.

Because the fact that anyone was thinking of Sakura in more then a friendly way pissed her off, Naruto being the only, ONLY, acception.

Because no one messes with Naruto Uzumaki's happiness and gets away with it.

They were like Tsunade's kids; she loved both of them to no end. She just wanted to crush something, anything. She stopped dead in her tracks, causing Kakashi to almost bump into her. She slammed a fist into one of the walls. It crumbled leaving a giant hole in the wall. On the other side, there were a few scared looking people, hoping that it wasn't them that had pissed Tsunade off.

"You're better off drinking yourself to sleep" Kakashi mumbled, rolling his visible eye at Tsunade's recklessness. She turned her head sharply to face him, glaring at him. She opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by Shizune.

"Tsunade-sama! Sai's escaped the hospital! He's gone!" Shizune cried. She stayed a safe distance away from Tsunade, knowing all to well what her hokage was capable of.

"WE'LL FIND HIM!" Tsunade screamed, causing countless people to run off in different directions.

"Head for Naruto and Sakura's house first" Tsunade told Shizune. Shizune bowed and ran quickly to assemble a search team. Tsunade looked at Kakashi.

"Can you feel it?" She asked him as she started walking towards the exit of the building, Kakashi following.

"At least we know Naruto went home to Sakura, he'll protect her" Kakashi said, tyring to put a positive look at things.

"Get Yamato" Tsunade ordered Kakashi as a matter of seconds he disappeared in a puff of smoke. Tsunade walked over to the front of the tower and looked up to the roof. Smiling at the familiar presence she called out.

"How long did you plan on staying up there for?"

In a matter of seconds she saw a white flash jump from the roof to the ground in front of her.

"Naruto's started to release the Kyuubi's power, what have I missed?" Jiraiya asked seriously, knowing too well of the Kyuubi's power.

"Well talk after we sort this out" Tsunade said as herself and Jiraiya made there way to the forest.

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"Kit! What's your problem?! Finish the job!" The Kyuubi roared, getting more furious by the second. Naruto just stood looking at the now unconscious Sai.

"KIT! DAMMIT! He tried to take Sakura away from you!" The Kyuubi growled, not understanding why Naruto wasn't finishing what he started. Slowly, the blue started to return to Naruto's eyes.

"I can't kill him, that bastard."Naruto thought, still not moving an inch. Then before he knew it he saw Yamato and Kakashi, then a split second later all he saw was black.

"Sai's pretty beat up…" Yamato said as he caught the now normal Naurto, turning to look at Sai. Kakashi picked Sai up.

"Better get them to the hospital" Kakashi said as he jumped to a tree branch, followed by Yamato.

The two raced in silence to get Naruto and Sai back to the hospital, hoping it wasn't too late for Sai. Kakashi saw Tsunade and Jiraiya up ahead.

"Kakashi, leave Sai with me and go find Sakura." Tsunade called as Yamato and Kakashi came towards them.

"Okay, I'll call off the search parties for these two as well" Kakashi said as he handed Sai over to Tsunade and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

The three of them continued to head towards the gates of Konoha.

"How'd they even end up in the forest that deep?" Jiraiya asked himself out loud as he looked from Naruto to Sai. He could feel a slight pain when he looked at Naruto; he hated to see him look so… helpless. He looked back over to Sai, and nodded to Tsunade.

"This is him?" He asked as he took in the bloody appearance of the boy.

"Yes. I just think if he spent a few months travelling with you, he could have a chance of being normal and just sorting himself out. Plus time away from the village would be good for him"

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Kakashi appeared in front of Sakura's house. All the lights were on inside. He made his way to the front door and knocked as he opened it.

"Sakura" He called out as the door was hallway open he dodged a few flying objects.

"What the-" Kakashi said as he dodged them effortlessly. He saw the worried look on Miss Haruno's face.

"Oh Kakashi, it's just you sorry!" She said as she dropped her guard a little. Kakashi looked around the house, it was a mess. Suddenly he heard footsteps coming towards him.

"Kakashi-sensei! Is Naruto-kun okay!? What's going on!?" She called as she ran up to him. Kakashi took in her weak appearance straight away.

"Sakura, you should properly go to the hospital." Kakashi said looking over her countless wounds.

"That's what we said to her, but she refuses to go" Sakura's dad said as he entered the room. Kakashi looked at Sakura's parents, concern was written all over their faces.

"Naruto should be at the hospital by now, don't worry he's okay. I think you should just get checked out Sakura" Kakashi said as he saw her face when he mentioned Naruto. Sakura looked at him, and nodded her head.

"Okay" Sakura said quietly as she thought about what could have happened to Naruto.

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Kakashi was sitting uncomfortably in the hospital waiting room. Naruto, Sakura and Sai had all been admitted half hour ago. Across from him were Sakura's parents, both watching Kakashi closely.

"Sakura told us what happened, but…" Sakura's dad trailed off. Kakashi sighed as he thought to himself

"How many times do I have to repeat this story?"

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Tsunade was writing down Sai's symptosis, almost critical. The damage that Naruto did to him was very, very hard to undo. Sai was lucky he didn't die, and that Naruto had a heart. Tsunade looked at the pale boy lying lifelessly on the hospital bed. She sighed as she put his chart on his front of his bed. The nurses in the room looked at her.

"Keep an eye on him, and monitor his progress." Tsunade ordered as she left the room.

It had been a long night, and Tsunade wanted nothing more then to sit down and have a few bottles of sake. She wondered the corridors of the hospital until she ended up in the doctor's lounge. She saw Jiraiya lying across one of the couches, asleep. She clenched her fist and walked up to him. She punched him in the face, causing him to fly off the couch.

"WHAT THE HELL TSUNADE!?!?!?" He screamed as he rubbed his face.

"Why should you get to slack off while everyone else has to work?" Tsunade said as she took his spot on the couch. Jiraiya chuckled to himself as he sat up.

"How is everyone?" He asked sitting cross legged.

"Sakura just needs to regain her strength, Naruto's in the same boat as her. But Sai, Sai's going to take some time." Tsunade said as she pulled a small bottle of Sake from her pocket.

"Could he recover while he's with me?" Jiraiya asked pulling out his own bottle of sake. Tsunade nodded.

"Are you sure you want to take him?" Tsunade asked taking a swing of sake.

"I love a challenge." Jiraiya said as a smile came onto his lips.

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Sakura sat on her hospital bed, looking at her hands. She was bandaged up and was feeling better, but the thought of Naruto never left her mind. She wanted to see him; she wanted to know he was okay. She stood up and made her way to the door. She opened it slowly and looked from left to right. The corridor was empty. She sensed Naruto, he was close. She walked in the direction of where his presence was coming from. It got closer and closer as Sakura made her way towards the stairs. She looked down the stair case and saw bright blonde hair. A smile came to her face straight away.

"Naruto-kun!" She squealed as she saw the blonde haired boy look up from the lower stair case.

"Sakura-chan! Hold on!" Naruto called out, his smile bigger then ever. He jumped up to where Sakura was and landed on the railing.

"Naruto-kun are you okay!?" Sakura asked as Naruto stepped down onto the ground and pulled Sakura in to his arms.

"I'm fine Sakura-chan, I'm more worried about you" Naruto whispered into her hair as his grip around her fragile body tightened. He could feel how weak she was, and how much chakra she lost.

"I'll be fine" Sakura said as she felt the comfort of being in his arms again. She looked up at him and smiled.

"Don't scare me like that again okay? I was so worried about you" Sakura said as looked into his bright blue eyes.

"I'm sorry that I worried you Sakura-chan," Naruto said as he kissed her lips lightly, but he was interrupted by a slight cough.

Naruto looked up and saw Jiraiya standing at the top of the stairs.

"You two better get back to your rooms… or you could go into one room and continue" Jiraiya said winking at Naruto. Sakura turned around, eyeing Jiraiya off.

"Just like Tsunade" Jiraiya laughed, thinking about all the times Tsunade's given him the same look.

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Im soo sorry about the late update! But with Christmas, my birthday and new year It was hard to update :P

I hope this chapter is to everyone's liking!

Theres only going to be around 2 more chapters!

I can't believe how closei am to finishing this story!

Thankyou so much for reading it!

Xoxoxoxox

Bliiss